Combined washer and nut-lock



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0. H. FOOTE.

GOMBINED WASHER AND NUT LOCK.

No. 505,454. Patented Sept. 26, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. FOOTE, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

COMBINED WASHER AND NUT-LOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,454, datedSeptember 26, 1893. Application filed may 12, 1893. Serial No. 473,949-(No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. FOOTE, of Kansas City,Wyandotte county,Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a CombinedWasher and Nut-Lock, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming apart hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in nut-locks and the object of myinvention is to provide a nut-lock which is simple, durable andinexpensive of construction and which will make it impossible for a nutto be accidentally unscrewed from a bolt when applied thereto.

With this object in View my invention consists in certain peculiar andnovel features of construction and arrangement as will be hereinafterdescribed and pointed out in the claims.

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed todescribe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure 1, is a perspective view of a portion of a railroad rail, andshowing applied thereto in operative position, my improved nut-lock.Fig. 2, is a detail view of the nut-lock attachment.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a rail of the usualconstruction, and 2 represents a portion of the fish plates, arrangedagainst opposite sides of the web 3 of said rail in the usual manner. I

4 represents a bolt which is passed through horizontally alignedopenings in the fish plates, and the web of the rail. A metal wire isbent to form the openings 12 and 13, and

has its free ends 14, extending outwardly and downwardly as shown. Theopening 12 is then slipped upon the projecting end of the bolt 4. insuch manner that the ends of the arms 14 will bear upon the upper sideof the foot portion of the rail. The nut 10 is then secured upon thebolt and the upper portion of the wire is bent so as to rest upon theadjacent edge of the nut; this arrangement being such as to prevent therotation of the locking wire, and also to prevent the rotation of thenut on the bolt independent of said locking wire. From this description,it will be seen that I have produced a nut-lock, which is simple, strongand inexpensive of construction.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a nut-lock, a locking plate formed of wire, and having a centralopening and depending legs, and an upper extension adapted to be bentupon the edge of the nut, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with the rail, the fishplate, the bolt and the nut,of alocking washer looped around the bolt, having a loop to be bentagainst the edge of the nut, and having its free ends bent to formdivergent legs adapted to bear upon the foot-portion of the rail,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

CHARLES H. FOOTE.

Witnesses:

MAUD FITZPATRICK, G. Y. THORPE.

